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Comment by kibibu | Hacker News Reader

Blog posts, like academic papers, should have to divulge how AI has been used to write them.

You're absolutely right! Let's delve into why blog posts like this highlight the conflict between the speed and convenience of AI and authentic human expression. Because it's not just about fears of hallucination—it's about ensuring the author's voice gets heard. Clearly. Completely. Unmistakably.

If nothing else, I sure got amusement from this.

Granted it's often easy to tell on your own, but when I'm uncertain I use GPTZero's Chrome extension for this. Eventually I'll stop doing that and assume most of what I read outside of select trusted forums is genAI.

Even blog post is generous. This is an ad.

Yes this is clearly verbatim output from an LLM.

But it's perfect HN bait, really. The title is spicy enough that folks will comment without reading the article (more so than usual), and so it survives a bit longer before being flagged as slop.

Is HN guidelines to flag AI content? I am unsure of how flagging for this is supposed to work on HN and have only ever used the flag feature for obvious spam or scams.

It might be wrong, but I have started flagging this shit daily. Garbage articles that waste my time as a person who comes on here to find good articles.

I understand that reading the title and probably skimming the article makes it a good jumping off point for a comment thread. I do like the HN comments but I don't want it to be just some forum of curious tech folks, I want it to be a place I find interesting content too.

I agree. It seems this is kind of a shelling point right now on HN and there isn't a clear guideline yet. I think your usage of flagging makes sense. Thanks

People used to write Medium/Linkedin slop by hand and they didn't have to disclose it. Slopping is its own punishment.

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